Our early-August collection of clips on Trumpworld's attempts to honor Confederate figures, whitewash history, and provide state funding for an AI service that went on an antisemitic spree
There are completely utilitarian and practical uses for AI. The "problem" seems to be its use by content creators and influencers that drive the antisocial media. Step away from the antisocial media and AI almost returns to a benign tool for rapidly collecting and assembling information.
It is so interesting to hear about the horror of the way AI is used in China but there is no alarm about the way corporations are using it for marketing purposes. Following consumers and generating specific advertising content is the foundation of all propaganda.
Fully agree that ideologues programming AI to propagate their worldview is deeply troubling and inappropriate, and not something the Trump administration should be pursuing. However, I would be remiss not to mention that for many years I covered Data Science Day at Columbia University and it was very common for leading data scientists to encourage and celebrate embedding principles of intersectionality and "wokeness" into artificial intelligence so as to automate the pursuit of "equity" and "social justice." At least up until this year, AI has had a deliberate and distinctly leftish lean, as demonstrated by the search results portraying founding fathers or Nazi generals as being black or Asian. Reasonable people can disagree how far it is appropriate to go to correct for that longstanding distortion before one starts sinning in the other direction. https://ivyexile.substack.com/p/social-justice-by-algorithm
There are completely utilitarian and practical uses for AI. The "problem" seems to be its use by content creators and influencers that drive the antisocial media. Step away from the antisocial media and AI almost returns to a benign tool for rapidly collecting and assembling information.
It is so interesting to hear about the horror of the way AI is used in China but there is no alarm about the way corporations are using it for marketing purposes. Following consumers and generating specific advertising content is the foundation of all propaganda.
Fully agree that ideologues programming AI to propagate their worldview is deeply troubling and inappropriate, and not something the Trump administration should be pursuing. However, I would be remiss not to mention that for many years I covered Data Science Day at Columbia University and it was very common for leading data scientists to encourage and celebrate embedding principles of intersectionality and "wokeness" into artificial intelligence so as to automate the pursuit of "equity" and "social justice." At least up until this year, AI has had a deliberate and distinctly leftish lean, as demonstrated by the search results portraying founding fathers or Nazi generals as being black or Asian. Reasonable people can disagree how far it is appropriate to go to correct for that longstanding distortion before one starts sinning in the other direction. https://ivyexile.substack.com/p/social-justice-by-algorithm
Well yeah the black Nazis and black popes were pretty hilarious but we can still enjoy them with good prompt engineering 😆